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ABSTRACT This article argues that, in the fourteenth century, there was a wave of nostalgia that was provoked by extreme structural change: this was a moment of demographic catastrophe (with famine and plague), endemic warfare, economic fluctuation, intensified urbanization, and intellectual and spiritual novelties.
Hannah Skoda
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Staging the Imagined City: Aretino in Rome and London
Abstract This article explores the theme of ‘cityscapes’, and Aretino as a writer of the urban experience, by focussing on the city as an unknowable and anonymous space, especially to social outsiders. It will first examine how Aretino portrays Rome in his early comedy Cortigiana (1525) as a confusing and socially stratified space when experienced from
Kate De Rycker
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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Abstract This article reconstructs Vasile Alecsandri's political and cultural activities at an international level, as he attempted to raise public awareness (particularly in France and Italy) for the Romanian national cause, namely, by staking claim to the ‘Latinity’ of Romanians.
Francesca Zantedeschi
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Abstract The fifteenth‐century Italian humanists applied their ideas on translation and textual scholarship not only to classical texts, but also to Scripture. One problem they encountered was the rendering of biblical passages in their patristic translations.
Annet den Haan
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The Solitary Mind in the Anatomy of Melancholy
Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 5-24, July 2023.
Angus Gowland
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Francesco Petrarca: Pismo »Sokratu«
Pismo Sokratu je prvo in naslovno pismo Petrarkove prve zbirke proznih pisem v latinščini z izvirnim naslovom Rerum familiarium libri. Vanjo je vključenih 350 pisem, spisanih med letoma 1325 in 1366.
Anja Božič
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Francesco Petrarca: Moja skrivnost
Secretum sive De secreto conflictu curarum mearum je poleg Avguštinovih Izpovedi, Montaignevih Esejev in Rousseaujevih Izpovedi eno najpomembnejših del o sebstvu v zahodni kulturi. Toda kljub na videz jasni strukturi in vsebini še vedno ni jasno, kakšen
Tomaž Potočnik
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This paper analyses and publishes a diptych of texts on the origins of the Orsini family preserved in the manuscript Florence, BNC, II.VII.82. The texts are fully in line with the trend of ‘unbelievable genealogies’ developing in Italy during the 16th
Vaccaro, Giulio
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La traduzione dei petrarchisti
In occasione del convegno internazionale dal titolo Tasso e i croati, svoltosi a Dubrovnik nel dicembre 1995, Tomasovié ha presentato il suo: Torquato Tasso: ljuvene rane/Le piaghe d'amore , un'antologia, con testo originale a fronte, delle migliori ...
Ljiljana Avirović
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